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Windows 7: NAS VS External Hard Drive Enclosure

I personally am a big fan of Synology, as a NAS solution its the preferred NAS system I sell to education and for very good reasons, in my opinion they are very reliable with a very nice and usable but not idiot proof (a good feature) operating system.

The link here is for a 4 bay system that allows for RAID 5 which in my opinion with 4 4TB drives is adequate for anything to be used in a home or small office.

This is just my personal opinion and I hope I have offered an insight into Synology systems!

NAS VS External Hard Drive Enclosure

Copying files, settings from old C drive in external enclosure.I upgraded to a bigger HDD and rather than cloning a few possible problems, I started fresh with a new install of Windows, ran all the updates, installed all the drivers, reran a number of updates, installed most of my programs, and ran Windows update yet again to the tune of about 180 total...

Installation & Setup

external hard drive enclosure will not show/loadi bought a trix hard drive enclosure/case for my 2.5 250GB hard drive. I connected everything up and inserted the hard drive usb into my laptop but windows will not show the drive in my computer. It does make the beeping noise telling me its detected the drive and it also shows in device...

Hardware & Devices

Hard Drive Enclosure not being seenI took one of my old drive from my old computer and installed in the Antec MX-1 Actively Cooled Hard Drive Enclosure.
Then I plug the USB into my note book, the USB to SATA bridge works fine.
However, I can not see the drive in "My Computer".
I have checked a few posts and I looked into Disk...

Hardware & Devices

Hard Drive Enclosure not being seen by 7Please help!
I recently upgraded my operating system to Windows 7 64 bit. I have an Intel MB with an E4500 core 2 dou processor running with 4 gigs ram.
I have an old ide enclose that all of the sudden wont be seen by the new operating system. I have changed the jumper on the hard drive in...

Hardware & Devices

I salvaged my old hard drive to an external enclosure.(I put my old hard drive into an external enclosure.(XP home) How can I transfer my files to my new laptop?http://i1.social.microsoft.com/Forums/resources/images/trans.gif?cver=2.6.0022.1
Windows 7 says to export the transfer utility to my old computer. My old computer won't boot up. I think the...

Installation & Setup

Looking for a good external enclosure/driveHas anybody got this (Antec MX-1)
Newegg.com - Antec MX-1 USB2.0 &#38; eSATA External Enclosure - External Enclosures
If so, do you like it? Any other suggestions? I want eSATA BUT I would like the freedom of not needing an external power source. Am I stuck with USB? I could go USB3...but it...